Agile Team Facilitation and Iteration Management
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Much of the work on Agile projects happens in group sessions: team members collaborate to identify and prioritize stories, plan work to be done, elaborate stories, identify risks and issues, communicate progress in stand-ups and other shared activities. Working in collaborative self-organizing teams can be challenging and it is important that all team members understand the group dynamics involved and how to effectively facilitate these sessions. That’s where our Facilitation and Iteration Management program comes in. Learn how collaborative workshops can be planned, organized and run; and how each team member can contribute to achieving maximum effectiveness - while identifying potential pitfalls and how to avoid and address these. This course will also assist you in addressing aspects of your role to build capability across the wider team.
- The value of facilitation skills in collaborative work environments
- How to apply a variety of tools and techniques and the context in which they are useful
- How to facilitate the various agile work practices
- The role of the Iteration Manager (ScrumMaster) and how it can help collaborative teams on their Agile journey
Important Course Information
Prerequisites:
- You will need to have completed formal Agile training such as Agile Fundamentals: Scrum, Kanban, Lean and XP and have at least 12 months’ experience working in an Agile team.
Course Materials:
- Attendees wishing to participate remotely, will be required to use a webcam for some of the exercises.
Certification & Exam Information:
- ICAgile accredited course: The ICP-ATF Certification from ICAgile is granted on the successful completion of this course and passing the Learning Tree Exam.
- We offer the complete ICAgile Coaching Track for those looking to become an ICAgile Certified Expert in Agile Coaching (ICE-AC). ICAgile Coaching Track also includes Agile Fundamentals: Scrum, Kanban, Lean and XP and Agile Coaching training sessions.
- View the ICAgile Certification & Training Roadmap
- Scrum Alliance approved: This training offers 20 SEUs of continuing education. In-person attendance can count as Category B SEU credit (no limit). Remote attendance counts under Category C (maximum of 15). Learn more about Scrum Alliance's Certified Scrum Professional certification here.
- Project Management Institute® approved: This course is accredited with PMI® for 18 PDUs (Professional Development Units). The PMI course code is: 003649.
Course Outline
- Chef Introduction
- Overview and expectations for the class
- The Chef Lab System Architecture
- Group Lab: Pre-built workstation
- Using Chef Resources
- Using Chef to install packages on your virtual workstation
- Using the chef-client command
- Creating a basic Chef recipe file
- Defining Chef Resources
- Test and repair
- Lab: The 'file' resource
- Building Cookbooks
- Modify a recipe
- Collaboration and version control
- Generating a Chef cookbook
- Defining a Chef recipe that sets up a web server
- Group Exercise: Version Control
- Lab: Set up Git
- Lab: Setting up web servers
- Chef client
- Locally applying multiple cookbooks' recipes with chef-client
- Applying a run list
- Including a recipe from within another recipe
- Lab: Update the apache Cookbook
- Testing Cookbooks
- Using Test Kitchen to verify your recipes converge on a virtual instance
- Reading the ServerSpec documentation
- Writing and execute tests
- Where do tests live?
- Group Exercise: Test configuration
- Lab: Converge the kitchen
- Lab: Commit your work
- Lab: Testing Apache
- Details About a System
- Managing large numbers of servers
- Capturing details about a system
- Using the node object within a recipe
- Using Ruby's string interpolation
- Updating the version of a cookbook
- Lab: Update the Cookbook version
- Lab: Node Details in the Webserver
- Lab: Commit your work
- Desired State and Data
- Cleaner recipes
- When to use a template resource
- Creating a template file
- Using ERB tags to display node data in a template
- Defining a template resource
- Using kitchen test on the "apache" cookbook
- Using chef-clientto apply the "apache" cookbook's "default" recipe
- Updating the "apache" cookbook's version for this patch=
- Committing the changes
- Lab: Update the version
- Local Workstation Installation
- Installing ChefDK on your laptop
- Executing commands to ensure everything is installed
- Installing a local editor like Atom
- Lab: You will run the following commands and report their versions: $chef, $chef-client, $knife, $ohai, $berks, $kitchen, $foodcritic, $rubocop
- The Chef Server
- Connecting to a Chef Server
- Managing Additional systems
- Managing User traffic
- Uploading cookbooks to a Chef Server
- Bootstrapping a node
- Managing a node via a Chef Server
- Hosted Chef
- Lab: Uploading cookbooks and managing cookbook dependencies
- Community Cookbooks
- Find cookbooks on the Chef supermarket
- Create a wrapper cookbook
- Example: load balancer
- Amazon EC2 instances
- Replace the existing default values
- Upload a cookbook to Chef Server
- Bootstrap a new node that runs the cookbook
- Discussion: Can your teams benefit from the supermarket?
- Managing Multiple Nodes
- Managing user traffic
- Bootstrapping and updating the run_list
- Running chef-client on a node
- Appending values to an attribute within a recipe
- Versioning cookbooks and uploading to Chef Server
- Lab: Another new node
- Lab: Test and update the load balancer
- Lab: Run $berks install
- Lab: Converging the cookbook
- Roles
- Assigning, defining, and configuring
- The 'knife' role
- Verifying roles
- Roles for everyone
- Lab: Define a web role
- Search
- Update a Cookbook to Dynamically Use Nodes with the Web Role
- Describe the query syntax used in search
- Build a search into your recipe code
- Create a Ruby Array and Ruby Hash
- Update the myhaproxy wrapper cookbook
- Lab: Updating, load balancing, uploading and running the new search-capable cookbook
- Environments
- Keeping your infrastructure current
- Creating a production environment
- Creating an acceptance environment
- Deploying a node to an environment
- Updating a search query to be more exact
- Lab: Set new nodes to production
- Lab: Acceptance environment
- Lab: Create a new environment file
- Course wrap and further resources
- Beyond essentials
- Valuable reading
- Events and online resources
- Customizing Chef
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Tuition
Standard
Government
In Classroom or
Online
Standard
$2745
Government
$2415
Private Team Training
Course Tuition Includes:
Training Hours
Standard Course Hours: 9:00 am – 4:30 pm
*Informal discussion with instructor about your projects or areas of special interest: 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm
FREE Online Course Exam (if applicable) – Last Day: 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm
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- Have a record of your growth and learning results
- Bring proof of your progress back to your organization
- Earn credits toward industry certifications (if applicable)
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Earn 18 PDUs
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This course is approved by PMI® for 18 professional development units (PDUs). For more on the Project Management Institute and a full list of courses approved for PDUs.
Technical : 6 PDUs
Leadership : 12 PDUs
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